Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Song praised the increased economic development occurring in China, saying that China's gross national product (GNP) has doubled and its output value has tripled in the last decade...
...hope the Crimson will seek to avoid making such gross errors again in the future. Jol A. Silversmith...
...securities to create a parallel universe of side bets and speculative mutations so vast that the underlying $14 trillion involved is more than three times the total value of all stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange in a month and twice the size of the nation's gross domestic product. Collectively, these new financial instruments are called derivatives. Financially, they function like some giant unseen asteroid -- they influence the markets' movements with a powerful and dimly understood gravitational pull. And if they wobble out of orbit, they could conceivably come crashing into the sphere...
...Mexico's gross domestic product has grown from $2,525 per capita in 1989 to $4,324 last year, but the encouraging statistics are not what they seem. "Behind those numbers," development expert Alberto Diaz Cayeros wrote recently, "is hidden the sad reality -- which Chiapas has shown in its most extreme expression -- that Mexico is one of the most unequal countries in the world...
...federal help. That came last week, when the Clinton Administration announced a $30 million aid package for New England and said it planned to ask Congress for $50 million more. Declared Commerce Secretary Ron Brown: "We had to respond quickly to what is clearly a crisis. There's been gross overfishing in the New England fisheries and an extraordinary depletion of that natural resource." Some of the assistance, he said, will go toward training fishermen for new jobs...